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December 12, 2013, 8:25 AM

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Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Bitcoin's Biggest Bet: Andreessen Horowitz Leads $25 Million Investment in Coinbase — Coinbase co-founders Brian Armstrong (l) and Fred Ehrsam, sporting we-got-money grins. — If you're a bitcoin doubter, you might want to turn away. The doors to venture funding in bitcoin startups are about to swing wide open.

More: The Coinbase Blog, The Next Web, The Switch, DealBook and TechCrunch

Tweets: @btcfoundation and @delrey

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Apple scores legal victory over Samsung in South Korea — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday lost its bid to ban sales of Apple Inc's older iPhone and iPad in South Korea, as a court dismissed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. firm had infringed three of Samsung's mobile patents.

More: Computerworld, The Register, BGR, MacRumors, AllThingsD, The Next Web, ABC News, 9to5Mac, FOSS Patents, Android Beat, Cult of Mac, Electronista, AppleInsider, Engadget, pocketnow.com and english.yonhapnews.co.kr

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Kick the Can — Yahoo Mail Is a Consumer Disaster, but Company's Response Is Even Worse — On Friday, November 8, Jeff Bonforte, the well-regarded techie who is now in charge of Yahoo Mail and all its communications products after the Silicon Valley Internet giant bought his startup Xobni …

More: BBC, The Verge, Yahoo Mail, SocialTimes, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and WebProNews

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Trouble At Yahoo: Partial Webmail Outage Continues, While Surprise Small Business Websites Shutdowns Anger Customers

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John Doerr's last stand: Can a dramatic shakeup save Kleiner Perkins? — Jesus Christ, Kleiner Perkins just can't catch a break. — The latest news - in a year-long deluge of mea culpas, nasty lawsuits, and admissions of strategic missteps - is that the firm is retrenching …

Tweets: @jason_pontin, @sarahcuda, @alexia and @katiefehren

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Kleiner Perkins Names Bing Gordon As Chief Product Officer; Debuts Founder Education Program ProductWorks

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

What might a new Windows Start Menu look like? — If Microsoft does end up reintroducing a Start Menu to a future release of Windows, as sources are hinting, does it necessarily mean that menu will be identical to what exists now? And if it's not, does that defeat the purpose? win7startmenu Your best friend or worst nightmare?

More: BGR and Softpedia News. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From Coatue Management — Amid rumors of a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook and a potential $200 million funding round, turns out that ephemeral messaging sensation Snapchat has actually raised $50 million in Series C funding.

More: Forbes, Fortune, VentureBeat, Inc.com, PE Hub Blog, San Francisco Chronicle, ZDNet, Business Insider, StartupBook, Digits, Business Insider, The Technology Chronicles, New York Times and AllThingsD

Tweets: @danprimack, @jwherrman, @danprimack, @j_hutch and @joshconstine

Thanks:@ryanlawler

Aoife White / Bloomberg:

Samsung Said to Near EU Antitrust Settlement on Patents — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s offer to settle a European Union antitrust investigation over key patents requires only minor changes to win approval from regulators, according to two people familiar with the case.

More: AppleInsider and SlashGear. Tweets: @fosspatents

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

AmazonFresh Launches In San Francisco — As we previously reported, Amazon has launched its grocery-delivery service in San Francisco today. — The service was previously available in Seattle and Los Angeles, but has now extended to the San Francisco Bay Area.

More: AllThingsD, SiliconBeat, USA Today, PE Hub Blog, SlashGear, Los Angeles Times, Digits, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, The Seattle Times, KQED News Fix, Eater SF, San Francisco Chronicle, Mercury News, The Verge and CNET

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Facebook to Join S&P 500 and 100 Indices — Facebook has just ascended to one of the most closely watched measures of the global market for stocks, the Standard & Poor's 500 index. — According to a statement from S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of McGraw Hill Financial, Facebook will also join the S&P 100.

More: DailyFinance.com, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Bloomberg, CNNMoney.com, Reuters and Yahoo! News

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

AT&T accused of violating privacy law with sale of phone records to CIA — Consumer advocates have asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to declare that AT&T violated a privacy rule in the Communications Act by selling phone records to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

More: Policy Blog, PC World, SlashGear, CNET, Free Press, PhoneArena and The Hill. See also Mediagazer

Lora Kolodny / Venture Capital Dispatch:

On Road to IPO, Shopify Raises $100M to ‘Bridge Clicks and Bricks’ … Canadian startup Shopify Inc. has raised $100 million to challenge juggernauts like Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. in the arena of merchant software and services. — Shopify's systems help merchants sell as easily online as they do offline, or vice versa.

More: TechCrunch, DealBook, Mashable, Gigaom and Globe and Mail. Tweets: @asenkut

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter's Latest Partnership, With Truecaller In India, Links Phone Number Look-Ups With Tweeting — Twitter has been inking deals with third parties outside of the U.S. to drive more international usage, both in emerging and mature markets. Today comes news of yet another deal that it hopes …

More: Gigaom, MediaNama and ArcticStartup

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Adds ABC, Bloomberg, Crackle, and KORTV Channels to Apple TV — Apple today added yet another set of channels to its Apple TV set-top box, including a “Watch ABC” channel to allow subscribers to certain cable services to watch content from their local ABC affiliate through Apple TV.

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, ValueWalk, TechnoBuffalo, Macworld, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and iPhone in Canada Blog

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Behind the scenes look at Apple TV app development w/ the new Bloomberg channel

More: CNET, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, iMore, AllThingsD, Gigaom, TUAW and Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@benjaminzamayo. See also Mediagazer

Grant Gross / Computerworld:

Show us a better way than collecting metadata, NSA director says to critics — Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the country against attacks, the agency's director said Wednesday.

More: Guardian, Washington Post, CBS News, ZDNet, Bloomberg, RT and TheHill

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Will Instagram's Messaging ‘Moments’ Be Ephemeral? — Instagram is preparing to launch a new messaging service on its platform this year — as soon as its event this Thursday — TechCrunch has heard from a variety of sources. This isn't too shocking, as Om Malik reported in a piece last month …

More: SocialTimes and CNET

Alex Dobie / Android Central:

Stock Android ‘Gallery’ app is no more on the new Google Play edition devices — GPe Sony Z Ultra and LG G Pad 8.3 ditch ‘Gallery’ in favor of G+ ‘Photos’ app — We suspected it was coming ever since we powered on the Nexus 5 to find both “Gallery” and “Photos” occupying the app drawer.

More: Android Beat, AndroidOS.in, pocketnow.com, The Droid Guy and Pocketables

Tamar Lewin / New York Times:

Study of a million users of MOOCs says they are a failure, only four percent completed courses — After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought — Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 students from around the globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence …

More: Valleywag and Engadget

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Puts Its Web Feed In Motion With Auto-Playing Videos — The News Feed is about to get a lot more lively. Just days after pushing its auto-play feature for videos to all mobile users, today we spotted auto-playing videos on Facebook.com, and the company confirms to me …

More: TUAW, The Verge, Cult of Mac, Electronista, Businessweek, iPhone Hacks and Engadget. Tweets: @chrismessina. Thanks:@jeffwidman

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Releases Its Find My iPhone-Style Android Device Manager App In The Play Store — Google launched Android Device Manager back in August, but it curiously made the tool web-only, eschewing a native Android app and causing a lot of confusion in doing so.

More: Android Developers Blog, Guardian, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, TechHive, The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Next Web and Gigaom

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Twitter becomes a better TV remote control as ABC, AMC, and Fox sign up for See It — It's been obvious for some time that Twitter sees television as a major way in which it can participate in, drive, and profit from the broader cultural conversation. It's about to become an even more useful tool …

More: Comcast and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Qualcomm Toq review: price, bizarre design decisions hamper the best smartwatch display yet — Qualcomm Toq review: a brief glimpse at the future of smartwatches — There's a difference between great technology and great products — The perfect smartwatch is deceptively simple: give it a great, always-on, glanceable display.

More: CNET, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Android Community, Ubergizmo and Android Police

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